Talk:Tapeworm

This article has very little to do with the subject matter and needs to be fixed Bohdan

It is very interesting though, LateralQuercus 08:56, 13 April 2007 (EDT)

Suggestion: http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch196/ch196k.html seems to be a good starting point.--AvengingAngel 18:36, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

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The origin of the tapeworm (Class Cestoda, various species) is somewhat obscure, but if one reads about Noah and his magnificent ark it is apparent that the tapeworm was brought with the other organisms on the ark as commanded by God: "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." -Genesis 6:13-14. And: "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female." -Genesis 6:19. And: "1. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female. 3. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him." -Genesis 7:1-5

What becomes unclear exactly is what other animal species carried this strange cargo. Based on the number of species of tapeworms (approximately 5000 in class Cestoda) it is fair to say that every animal on the ark must have been a defacto mini-Noah's ark, carrying the "flesh" in their intestines that would be spared from the coming flooding of Earth.[Citation Needed] It is a fascinating answer, but not precise in its scope by any measure: If there were more species than tapeworms, where did the extra tapeworms go? If there were fewer, which species were spared and why? Perhaps as creationist scholars investigate questions such as these more thoroughly a more exact answer to this mystery will take form on these pages and elsewhere.

I removed all of this, as while it is an interesting essay, it seemed totally out of place in an article on tapeworms. If the author of this feels aggrieved, please feel free to edit it and put it back in a suitably amended form.

--AvengingAngel 18:49, 15 May 2007 (EDT)